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Biography

August Burns Red is an American metalcore band, from Manheim, Pennsylvania . Formed in 2003, the group began their first performances while a majority of the members were attending their senior year of high school, and soon began playing shows around Lancaster, before being signed to CI Records , and afterward, Solid State Records|Solid State . The group is primarily known for their heavy Break (music)#Metal and punk|breakdowns and time signature#Irrational meters|odd-meter riffs . They state Between the Buried and Me , Misery Signals and Hopesfall as their main influences.

History

Formation and Thrill Seeker (2003& ndash;2006)

August Burns Red was founded in March 2003 when all the members were attending high school. The original practice sessions of the band began in drummer, Matt Greiner's old egg house and basement on the Greiner family's farmland . After playing many local shows within Lancaster, they recorded their first Extended play|EP , titled Looks Fragile After All with label CI Records in 2004.

Vocalist Jon Hershey eventually quit the band during the same year, which lead to Josh McManness to take on the position as lead singer, and after several months of playing with McManness, August Burns Red signed to Solid State Records in 2005. Hershey would later go on to form instrumental post-rock band Bells. August Burns Red released Thrill Seeker , their first full-length album, on November 8, 2005. In 2006, drummer Matt Greiner was endorsed by Truth Custom Drums following the release of the album.

Messengers (2006& ndash;2009)

McManness departed from the band in 2006, exhausted by the band's constant touring. He was replaced with Columbia, South Carolina|Columbia, SC resident, Jake Luhrs during the same year. Bassist Jordan Tuscan also left the band in 2006 for similar reasons as McManness. He was replaced by bassist Dustin Davidson, a friend of the band. The band's second album, Messengers (album)|Messengers , was released on June 19, 2007. Marking the debut for Luhrs fronting the group, it managed to become the band's breakthrough album, reaching number 81 on the Billboard 200| Billboard 200 . http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do? model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums& model.vnuArtistId=625613& model.vnuAlbumId=948153 The album has sold a total of 108,000 copies as of May 2011.

Throughout 2008, August Burns Red toured with several acts across North America and Europe to promote Messengers . From April to May they toured with As I Lay Dying (band)|As I Lay Dying and Misery Signals across the United States and Canada. In September and October of that same year, they headlined a tour with A Skylit Drive , Sky Eats Airplane , Greeley Estates , and This or the Apocalypse in the United States. The band also visited Europe for a month-long headlining tour in November, playing in Germany, Finland, Norway, Sweden, The United Kingdom, Republic Of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and France.

After this series of tours, the band recorded two covers of popular songs. They recorded an instrumental version of the classic song, " Carol of the Bells " for the X Christmas compilation album, which was featured in trailers for the film, The Spirit (film)|The Spirit , released Christmas|Christmas Day 2008. They also recorded a cover of " ...Baby One More Time " by pop singer Britney Spears for the Punk Goes Pop 2 compilation album, released in March 2009.

On February 24, 2009, the band released an EP, entitled Lost Messengers: The Outtakes . It contains material that is related or was decided not to be included in the final, mastered version of Messengers . August Burns Reds' first trip to the Middle East took place on March 6, 2009 with the band playing at the Dubai Desert Rock Festival . The band's last tour before their next album release took place in the United States, where they toured with metalcore band All That Remains (band)|All That Remains throughout April and May.

Constellations (2009& ndash;2011)

To promote their upcoming album, August Burns Red released several new tracks and a music video during June 2009. The tracks Thirty and Seven , Existence , and Ocean of Apathy were all released on the 15th, 21st, and 29th, respectively. A music video for the song Meddler was also released during this month. On July 7, a week before the album's release, August Burns Red began streaming the full album on their Myspace profile for a limited time.
August Burns Red released their third full-length album, Constellations (August Burns Red album)|Constellations , on July 14, 2009. During the week of August 1, 2009, the album charted at spot 24 on the Billboard 200. Another United States tour was organized with August Burns Red headlining and support from Blessthefall , Enter Shikari , All Shall Perish , and Iwrestledabearonce . After this tour, the band joined a short tour in Australia with Architects (British band)|Architects in support of Australian band Parkway Drive . August Burns Red toured alongside Underoath and Emery (band)|Emery in November and December 2009 as well.

The band released their first live CD/DVD, Home (August Burns Red album)|Home , on September 28, 2010. The group co-headlined an Alternative Press tour throughout November. On February 23, 2010, Constellations was nominated for the GMA Dove Award|Dove Award for "Best Rock Album".

August Burns Red toured Australia and New Zealand in December 2010 on the No Sleep Til Festival . The band played alongside Parkway Drive , A Day to Remember , NOFX , Dropkick Murphys , Suicide Silence , Megadeth , Descendents (band)|Descendents , Gwar and many others.

Leveler (2011& ndash;present)

On July 27, 2010, lead guitarist, Brubaker stated that the band would be taking time off tour to write their next record, On February 12, 2011, the band announced via their official Facebook page that they had completely finished writing their new record and that they would be entering the studio on Valentine's Day. which, following into March of the next year, the band announced that the record was finished, and that it was (at that point) time for mixing. On the 5th of April, August Burns Red revealed the name of this upcoming record as Leveler (August Burns Red album)|Leveler . On May 16, 2011, the band released the song "Empire" as a preview before its release. They also later premiered three other songs: "Internal Cannon", "Divisions", and "Poor Millionaire", on May 31, June 6, and June 14, respectively.

Leveler was released on June 21, 2011 in two forms; standard and deluxe. The deluxe version of Leveler contains four extra songs, including an acoustic version of the song "Internal Cannon". The album sold particularly well compared to their other releases, with 29,000 of its opening first week-copies being sold in the United States alone. These sales had the record land at position 11 on The Billboard 200 chart. After the release, August Burns Red took part on the main stage of the Warped Tour 2011|2011 Vans Warped Tour .

Characteristics and image

Musical style

August Burns Red is generally credited as a metalcore band,Revolver interview"> and have also been said to share traits of other genres such as progressive metal , and thrash metal . August Burns Red songs frequently feature technical or odd time signature|odd time signatures and heavy breakdowns, with a variety of influences including Meshuggah , Between the Buried and Me , Poison the Well (band)|Poison the Well , Symphony in Peril and Misery Signals .

While the group has stated that they don't mind being classified as metalcore, Brubaker has grown to a distaste in the genre's usual bands: "I feel like anyone who can pick up and play a guitar and learn to play a metalcore riff and any drummer who can learn to play a thrash beat over a breakdown is doing it. It's almost become very formulaic, and metal to me was never a formulaic genre."Revolver interview"/>

Band name

The group explained the origin of the band's name revolves around an incident involving the group's founding vocalist, Jon Hershey:

However, it was later revealed that this meaning (along with others) were comical stories created by the members and there is no actual meaning behind the band name.

Christian faith

August Burns Red is a Christian band. JB Brubaker mentioned in an interview with Shout! , an online magazine , that "Christianity is a religion, not a style of music" and he would "rather just let the music speak for itself." However, Brent Rambler commented on the fact that "It is important to us that people know that we are indeed Christians...without having us stand up there and ram it down people's throats."

Members

;Current

JB Brubaker - lead guitar (since 2003)

Brent Rambler - rhythm guitar (since 2003)

Matt Greiner - drum kit|drums (since 2003)

Dustin Davidson - bass guitar , backing vocalist|backing vocals (since 2006)

Jake Luhrs - Lead vocalist|lead vocals (since 2006)

;Former

Jordan Tuscan - bass guitar (2003& ndash;2005)

Jon Hershey - lead vocals (2003& ndash;2004)

Josh McManness - lead vocals (2005& ndash;2006)

Discography

;Studio albums

Year	Title	Label	Chart peaks
Year	Title	Label	US	US Hard Rock	US Rock	US Christ
2005	Thrill Seeker	Solid State Records	—	—	—	—
2007	Messengers (album)>Messengers		81	—	—	1
2009	Constellations		24	2	8	1
2011	Leveler		11	1	2	1

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1. Devin Townsend 2. Death Angel 3. Between The Buried And Me 4. Thrillseekers 5. The Almost 6. A Day To Remember 7. Download Festival 8. Enter Shikari 9. Every Time I Die 10. Messenger 11. Messengers 12. Set Your Goals 13. The Messengers 14. Parkway Drive 15. A Skylit Drive 16. Pierce The Veil 17. Blessthefall

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